Gender Analysis of the County Government Act Introduction The Kenyan independence constitution promoted centralization limited the participation of citizens in the decision making the process and the process of allocating resources. The successive independence regimes failed to address the inequalities and high poverty levels in the country. The regimes failed to set up effective redistribution structures that would help to redistribute surpluses to low potential regions. This deficiency resulted in demands for decentralization of government structures for equitable resource allocation and service delivery. Moreover, the country’s enshrined cultural heritage also promotes a patriarchy state and elder reverence. Such heritage is detrimental to various population groups, including minority groups, women, and children. This scenario resulted in the County Government Act to decentralize funds through the local government system (SID, 2012). In Kenya, ethnicity is deep-rooted, making it difficult to realize equity during service delivery. The Act was considered to minimize unjust inequalities. The Act also seeks to promote sustainable development in the country by equal participation of all citizens regardless of their gender. The paper provides a gender analysis of the…

The Role of Gender in “To the Lighthouse” Gender role is one of the most dominant themes in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. In the novel, Woolf writes about the experiences of Mr. Ramsay, Mrs. Ramsay, their eight children, and their guests during a vacation to the family’s summer home located in the Hebrides, Skye (Woolf, 2008). She divides the novel into three primary sections, including The Window, Time Passes, and The Lighthouse. The theme of gender role and relations remains eminent throughout the play as each character develops a distinct standpoint on the theme. For instance, while the novel portrays Mrs. Ramsay as a conventionally ideal woman submissive to her husband and a loving mother to her children, Lily Briscoe, one of the guests, is an independent woman who exhibits less sympathy for men (Woolf, 2008). The novel paints a clear picture of women as submissive beings whose primary duty is to maintain tenderness and massage the male ego. Male and female genders behave quite differently in an effort to establish a relationship. The concepts of masculinity and femininity are at…

CEO Gender and Firm Performance Deliverable 1: Critical Analysis of Scholarly Article This article was written by João Paulo Vieito, and Walayet A. Khan and published in 2013 by the University of Evansville in the USA. It discusses the impacts of female CEO on the performance of companies in comparison to male CEOs. Its authors are well-established and qualified elites working at reputable institutions. João Paulo Vieito is the Chairman of the World Finance Conference, and the Dean School of Business Studies Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo Portugal. He has a Ph.D. in Management Sciences and has specialized in Finance. Walayet A. Khan possesses a Ph.D. in Finance, works as the Finance professor at the University of Evansville. The article presents the results of research on the performance of companies that are led by female CEOs, and how this performance compares to that of firms managed by male CEOs. It is an Economics and Business article that skillfully and in a detailed manner, explains the topic while providing facts to support the evidence given. There are three main goals…

Gender and Identity Issues “Don’t dare to enter my house after 7.00 pm” was my father’s rule during my childhood days. Girls in my family were not allowed to go out past seven unless, when accompanied by my parents may be from a family function such as dinner. Should this rule apply to girls only? I never got an answer until when I completed high school because my only brother was never questioned even when he came back to the house after midnight. This discrimination did not apply only to me but to all girls within the neighborhoods, if not countrywide. Girls who were bold enough to stand against the injustices were physically punished but still resisted. I remember my childhood friend, Amina, who was branded troublesome, resisted by running away from her home to seek refuge in a foreign Christian home. She had to mimic their way of life, including dressing code for her identity to remain undisclosed apart from the foster family. Even though she had all the freedom to do things her way, she never disrespected them.…

Transgender Attacks and Killing in Florida             Hate Crime is a criminal offense that may be fabricated or accurately reported by the security personnel o the victim. In the year 2019, a victim of hate crime was explained by Ehrlich (2018). An Asia who was attacked for her was being transgender during sitting down for a particular interview in Miami. The place of the crime was at the University of Miami Life Science and Technology Park in Florida, Miami, on November 20, 2019, on Wednesday. Transgender is natural appearance of a human being due to deformity at birth, but in some areas, the hate accounts for the innocent people for them being multi-sexuality. Additionally, a transgender woman was shot in South Dade as another burned down in the Clewiston, and a third transgender person was non-conforming beaten in the streets of Jacksonville before the hates dragged her naked out of the car. According to criminal justice, all these hate crimes include violence that took place a few months ago in Florida, and none of the victims has been identified by…

List the amounts of vitamins and minerals in your supplement and compare these with their Dietary Reference values for a person of your age and gender. The vitamin C level in the Echinacea supplement is 9.9 international units. In contrast, vitamin c level of the Dietary Reference Intake is ten units this greater than the value of the supplement. Zinc in the supplement adds up to 2.3 units. Thus, it is higher than the standard group to zinc that is provided in the Dietary Reference Intake has 2.5 units. Iron in the supplement has 2.1 units. Thus it is less than the iron that is in the Dietary Reference Intake that reads 2.7 units. List any vitamins or minerals that are at levels equal to their Dietary Reference Intake or higher than their Dietary Reference Intake Through the information that is provided by dietary reference intake and the test that I carried out at home. I found out that the following vitamins and minerals were above the normal levels: Vitamin A, Vitamin B12, Vitamin C and Vitamin some vitamins were…

Parental influence on children’s gender roles Parents have a special place in the lives of children as established in most families. The parents influence the development and nurturing of children in various ways, including psychological, emotional, intellectually and behaviour. Multiple studies indicate that the parent’s attitudes, behaviours and interests have a direct correlation to the children’s attitudes and behaviours (Marjanovic & Fekonja-Peklaj, 2017). That is, children tend to copy what their parents do and use. They also emulate socialization habits and ethical values that parent’s exhibit. Concerning gender roles, parents equally have a considerable stake. The parents help by shaping gender stereotypes, biases and perceptions in the families. They expose the male children to family roles, household tasks and masculine leisure activities and girls to feminine tasks and practices (Marjanovic & Fekonja-Peklaj, 2017). Likewise, the parents influence gender roles among children through parent-child plays and exposure to biological preferences. Notably, roles and behaviours are nurtured over time in people. Majority of people exhibit behaviours and habits that are nurtured over time (Vangelisti, 2013). Most people who guide the young ones…

Gender roles are behavioral patterns Gender roles are behavioral patterns and the expectations related to a particular sex. Gender differences are often connected with social roles in which society expects females to act or not act in a particular manner, and the same case applies to males. Even though there are many exemptions, males and females do differ in ways that analogous conventional gender stereotypes and that determine how both genders generally behave. Sociologists generally attribute various behavioral differences between genders to socialization, which in this case, is the process of shifting beliefs, norms, and behaviors to various group members. The childhood phase is the time when socialization is intense as adults instruct the young on how to behave for them to comply with the social norms and gender is included in the process. People are instructed on how to behave according to their gender socially. Nowadays, it is extensively believed that differences in socialization attribute most gender differences and not genetic and biological factors. Society has set it that males are supposed to behave in a particular way while…

Advertising and Gender Jordache Jeans Commercial Advertisement and gender refer to the pictures and images in advertising that depict stereotypical roles display and roles according to gender. Displays on gender are highly used in the advertisement to demonstrate the roles of one gender, male in relation to the other, female, and it is argued that advertising companies are obsessed with gender (Zotos & Grau, 2016). Since people define themselves by their gender, advertising companies focus on gender relations because gender makes communication at a glance. This enables advertisers to efficiently use the theme of gender in their activities. The impact of advertisements on body images has been researched by different scholars from a variety of fields such as psychologists and market professionals (Bartholomew, 2018). Due to their contribution, today, we understand the relationship between media and body images is a mutual one. Specifically, the body image-related advertising portrays affects our image too. What media does has a significant effect on the people. The reason being most pf the advertisements bring messages of beauty and physical attractiveness. Examples include cosmetics, a…

AMERICAN’S BELIEFS ON GENDER ROLES AND SEXUALITY TOWARDS SHAPING THE FAMILY LIFE Family life is the routine dealings and doings that a family participates in together. An example of upright family life is when members of a given family come together and spend much of their essential time working together. Currently, life has changed much.  With the changes in cultural life, new communication forms, and advancements in technology, family life isn’t precisely what used to be some years ago. It is changed. Several factors have influenced the current family life for it to be as it is. Top of the elements is the people’s beliefs about gender roles and the issue of sexuality on family life. Today, American family life has changed. Still, the change is in motion. Thus, it means more changes are to anticipate. Beliefs such as religious ones appear to encourage families to live in a warmly and interactive style that some time call for shared gender roles irrespective of one’s beliefs. On the other side, traditional ideas have their influence on family life with their varied…